KRS 212.784: Jurisdiction and powers of board.

(1) Independent district departments of health shall be governed by an independent

district board of health which shall be a body politic and corporate. The board shall

have jurisdiction throughout the counties, including within all municipalities of the

counties with respect to and in accordance with the provisions of KRS 212.780 to

212.794. The board may, in its corporate name, sue and be sued, contract and be

contracted with, acquire real, personal, and mixed property by deed, purchase, gift,

devise, lease, or otherwise, and mortgage, pledge, sell, convey, or otherwise dispose

of same. The board may make appropriate rules and regulations and do all things

reasonable or necessary in order to carry out the work and to properly perform the

duties intended as required under the provisions of KRS 212.780 to 212.794, except

that the board shall not adopt, unless otherwise provided by law, rules and

regulations in conflict with state laws or administrative regulations. The title to all

property acquired for purposes of KRS 212.780 to 212.794 whether real, personal,

and mixed, or whether acquired by deed, gift, purchase, devise, or otherwise, shall

vest in the board and shall be exempt from taxation. When and after the board and

department established under the provisi ons of KRS 212.782 are organized, and

except as otherwise provided herein, the board and department shall succeed to and

be vested with all of the functions, obligations, powers, duties, immunities, and

privileges now being exercised by the district board of health and district

department of health, and thereupon the district board of health and district

department of health shall cease to exist and all laws and amendments to any such

laws, relating to and governing the district board of health and district department of

health, in conflict with the provisions of KRS 212.780 to 212.794 shall, to the

extent of such conflict, stand and be repealed.

(2) When an independent district board of health is created pursuant to KRS 212.782,

all powers and duties of the previous district board of health and local boards of

health, except as otherwise provided in KRS 212.780 to 212.794, are transferred to

the newly created independent district board of health and independent district

department of health. Independent dist rict boards of health and independent district

departments of health established under KRS 212.782 shall succeed to and be

vested with all the functions, powers, obligations, duties, immunities, and privileges

exercised by a district health department and local board of health.